A recent scientific study examined how often passengers and crew on cruise ships wash or disinfect their hands – and whether current practices are...
Hand Hygiene on Cruise Ships: What a Recent Study Reveals
Electronic Monitoring is Shaping the Future of Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene saves lives, the way hospitals track it hasn’t changed in decades. Many facilities still rely on short observational audits or rough...
Smart dispensers provide data on hand hygiene in General Practice Offices
As part of a comprehensive study in four Dutch general practice offices (GPO’s), digital hand sanitizer dispensers from OPHARDT Hygiene helped...
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New study shows advantages of hand disinfection for infection protection in educational institutions Running noses and long-lasting, irritable cough: pathogens are quickly and easily transmitted through both direct and indirect contact...
Protecting health through hand washing Although nearly everyone knows that washing hands helps prevent the transmission of diseases, not everyone appears to know when to do it. According to a nationwide survey conducted by the Federal Centre for...
Research results show problems in the implementation of guiding principles of hand disinfection. Nosocomial infections are a great challenge to health care systems worldwide. They occur comparatively frequently on intensive care units. In Germany...
Non-intensive care units show a gap in patient-side dispenser systems. In medical facilities, the immediate opportunity for hygienic hand disinfection at the point of care is a vital prerequisite for high compliance. There is increased need for...
New study points to importance of hand hygiene in air traffic. Each day, airports around the world see millions of passengers travelling to and from multiple countries. Whether they are travelling a long distance, or a short one, these passengers...
Touchless disinfectant dispensers have been proven to increase compliance and reduce the risk of cross-contamination. For these reasons, the guideline by Robert Koch-Institute recommends automatic dispenser systems for hand disinfection. More than...
OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System® supports the improvement of hand hygiene on the intensive care unit Careful hand hygiene offers the most effective protection against nosocomial infections and their associated consequences. To improve patient...
OPHARDT Hygiene Monitoring System® used in a comprehensive behavioural hygiene study Do WiFi-based hand hygiene dispensers improve hand hygiene behaviour in clinical environment? This question was answered in a research programme over the period of...
At Herz-Jesu-Hospital in Münster, Westphalia, another healthcare facility has made the leap to fully automatic monitoring of hand hygiene for improved compliance and patient safety. More than 40 intelligent disinfectant dispensers measure the...